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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Hi Dreamer,

    I'm going to raise a question that may cause offence and may be off target so I will apologise up front if I have a wrong impression.

    Have you considered whether you or your husband are on the spectrum? I survived 56 years without working it out but in retrospect I have experienced issues with it all of my life. For me, there have been many instances of conflict and misunderstandings and situations where I failed to get other people to do what I want or where I have failed to do what pther people normally do.

    There is a free test at aspergerstest.net/.../ that gives a good indication of whether someone is on the spectrum.

    The thing that prompted my question is that I feel that you are struggling to work with your son's school and that there is a battle going on over things that shouldn't be so hard.

    Schools are often very willing to get extra time and assistance for exams as this helps the school get good results. I am surprised that you are finding it so hard to communicate with them (perhaps that's a clue?)

    I personally have benefited enormously from diagnosis so I don't regard it to be a bad thing to be on the spectrum and hope I haven't offended with this suggestion.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Hi Dreamer,

    I'm going to raise a question that may cause offence and may be off target so I will apologise up front if I have a wrong impression.

    Have you considered whether you or your husband are on the spectrum? I survived 56 years without working it out but in retrospect I have experienced issues with it all of my life. For me, there have been many instances of conflict and misunderstandings and situations where I failed to get other people to do what I want or where I have failed to do what pther people normally do.

    There is a free test at aspergerstest.net/.../ that gives a good indication of whether someone is on the spectrum.

    The thing that prompted my question is that I feel that you are struggling to work with your son's school and that there is a battle going on over things that shouldn't be so hard.

    Schools are often very willing to get extra time and assistance for exams as this helps the school get good results. I am surprised that you are finding it so hard to communicate with them (perhaps that's a clue?)

    I personally have benefited enormously from diagnosis so I don't regard it to be a bad thing to be on the spectrum and hope I haven't offended with this suggestion.

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